City’s got civic center vision thing
City leaders are moving forward on a plan to revamp Alameda’s civic core that could be put in motion in the next 15 to 18 months, Interim City Manager Ann Marie Gallant has said.
The plan envisions new uses for the former Chun gas station, Towata Flowers and Carnegie library, and for the space now occupied [...]
Measure B: We asked, you answered
In the wake of Measure B’s February 2 defeat at the polls and widespread speculation about the reasons for its defeat, we here at The Island decided to ask people what they didn’t like about SunCal’s Alameda Point redevelopment initiative. A hundred and eighteen of you answered our (totally non-scientific) poll, and here’s what you [...]
Why did you vote no?
Okay, I admit it. I’ve been following the continuing debate over the Meaning of the Measure B Vote with a whole heaping boatload morbid curiosity. Did people love the land plan but hate the business deal attached to it, as some have maintained? Or are people not all that jazzed about 4,800 (or more) homes [...]
SunCal withdraws extension request
SunCal has withdrawn its request that the city extend the term of the exclusive negotiating agreement it holds to ink an Alameda Point development deal by two years. The City Council, sitting as the Alameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority, had been set to make a decision on that request tonight. City staff recommended the council [...]
Council may want less dense Point
Some City Council members interviewed in the wake of Measure B’s loss at the polls on February 2 are saying they want a development at Alameda Point that has far fewer homes that developer SunCal was asking voters to approve.
“I don’t think a non-Measure A (compliant) plan works out there,” Mayor Beverly Johnson told The [...]
MEASURE B SUFFERS MASSIVE DEFEAT
With all precincts counted, the Alameda County Registrar of Voters is reporting that Measure B has suffered a landslide loss. The Alameda Point development initiative lost 11,947 votes to 2,120 votes, or 84.93 percent to 15.07 percent, according to unofficial final results.
“This is an astonishingly wonderful result. For it to be so clear for the [...]
ABSENTEES: OVERWHELMING NO ON B
Now that the polls have closed, Alameda County’s Registrar of Voters has posted unofficial, early results on the Measure B contest. Of the 9,776 vote by mail ballots cast, 82.52 percent, or 8,067 are saying no to the Alameda Point development initiative, and 17.48 percent, or 1,706 are saying yes.
More to come.
B-Day
This is it, folks: Election Day for Measure B, the SunCal-sponsored development plan for Alameda Point. Voters will be casting their ballots on a Measure A exemption, a land plan for the Point and a development agreement that will be inked between SunCal and the city if B passes (though even SunCal is saying now [...]
SUNCAL THROWS IN THE TOWEL
Things are looking so bad for Measure B that even SunCal has announced that they think their Alameda Point development initiative will fail – a day before voters head to the polls.
But the developer’s insisting that voters still want their vision to be carried to fruition at the Point, and they say they intend to [...]
Comment: What’s the Point?
I had hoped to have an editorial for you this week that would tell you whether to vote for or against Measure B. But the truth is, I’ll be sitting this one out. Because it has become crystal clear to me that the city has decided that they’re going to do whatever they want on [...]
GILMORE: ‘RELUCTANT’ NO ON B
City Councilwoman and mayoral candidate Marie Gilmore has said that while she supports redevelopment of Alameda Point, she is taking a “reluctant” stance against Measure B.
Gilmore has come under fire in recent weeks from groups who oppose Measure B because she had not taken a stance on SunCal’s Point development plan. She is the last [...]
